Story+1981-07-16+Philadelphia,+PA

´´Thanks....this is...this is a song of Elvis Presley, this is called ´Follow That Dream´...´´
 * 16.07.81 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ´´Follow That Dream´´**

´´I remember when I was growing up...my old man used to lock the frontdoor so that me and my sister used to have to come in around the side at night and he´d be sitting in the kitchen waiting for us....and....he´d be sitting there too long all night, all the lights´d be out...and he used to always ask you the same question, he wanted to know what I thought I was doing.... he´d say ´Bruce, what do you think you´re doing?´ (chuckles) you know, and I would try to tell him about the things that I wanted to do....and I guess they were so far away from the things that he thought I ought to be doing that we were never able to....to carry on much of a conversation, right (chuckles) I guess ´cause when I was, when I was growing up, I had all these big ideas, all these big dreams of the things I was gonna do and by that time he´d lost, he´d lost all those things or I felt that he´d lost all those things inside of him and all I remember was him sitting every night for 18 years that we lived together, sitting at home every night in the kitchen and it wasn´t till I got older that I realised....that he´d sit there all night long by himself...and I never once asked him, I never once asked him what he was thinking about....and....I guess he was, he was just dreaming too....well....´´
 * 16.07.81 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ´´Independence Day´´**

´´Seems that....it seems that whenever times get tough, there´s always a....a resurgence of the kinds of, the kinds of people that try to tell, try to tell you that the country that you live in belongs either to a certain religious group or certain color or certain....this is a song that was written a long time ago by a guy named Woody Guthrie and uh....it´s never, it´s, uh, it´s.... this song is a dream, it´s....it´s like a challenge to you to try and make it true, try to make it real and it´s gonna come down, it´s gonna depend on you....´´
 * 16.07.81 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ´´This Land Is Your Land´´**

´´Thanks....I remember when I, when I wrote that song, I used to, I used to dream about Elvis singing it....and....I wrote that, it was in the beginning of, was in 1977 when we first worked on ´Darkness´....and it wasn´t, uh, wasn´t too much later that I remember I was sitting home and a friend of mine called me on the phone and told me that Elvis had died.... and I was thinking how he was only 42 and....how he must´ve....now, friends in this world, friends, having good friends around, people that, people that can help you out when you need ´em is an important thing....and I guess he didn´t, couldn´t have had too many of those....but ....this is a song, this is a song that I wrote for, for Elvis....´´
 * 16.07.81 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ´´Johnny Bye Bye´´ (following ´´Fire´´) **

´´Ladies and gentlemen....we have with us tonight....on our stage....beginning....to the far left, your right....on the piano, let´s hear it for Professor Roy Bittan....play it for us, Roy (Roy plays)....next to him, on the guitar....we´ve got a man who´s poet of the soul, master of rock´n´roll, he brought you such great hits as ´I Don´t Wanna Go Home´, ´Sweeter than Honey´, ´This Time It´s for Real, ´Some Things Just Don´t Change´, ´Trapped Again,´ ´Daddy´s Come Home´, I´m talking about the great ´Miami´ Steve Van Zandt....next on the bass guitar, all the way from Neptune, New Jersey, we have Mr.Garry W.Tallent....and way back on the drums now, we´ve got a young man spending his first week in Philadelphia as a married man, that´s right, I´m sorry, girls, read ´em and weep, I wanna tell you, on the drums, The Mighty Max Weinberg....he´s already taken, girls, already taken....and now on the organ, from Flemington, New Jersey, the unpredictable, the unimitable, a great humanitarian, I´m talking about Phantom Dan Federici....and last but not least....I don´t blame you for being excited....because right now I´m gonna introduce to you a man who´s known everywhere around the world, in every country he´s the king of the world, he´s the emperor of the universe, he´s the master of all things, the prince of the city, the Duke of Paducah, I´m talking to you about, he´s faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a roaring locomotive, able to leap tall women, I mean tall buildings in a single bound, he´s lean, mean sex machine, I´m talking about....now gimme a C-L-A-R-E-N-C-E, what´s that spell?.... what´s that spell?....what´s that spell?....Spotlight on the Big Man !....´´
 * 16.07.81 Philadelphia, PA, middle of ´´Rosalita´´**

´´Thanks....I´d like to, I´d like to take a second and thank you all for coming down to the show tonight....I´d just like to thank, I´m glad we got a chance to come back and see you this summer and I´d like to, like to thank all you folks from Philly for supporting the band as long (crowd drowns out Bruce´s voice) we appreciate it....´´
 * 16.07.81 Philadelphia, PA, intro to ´´Jungleland´´**

//Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi//